It's Getting Pretty Busy Around The ISS...
Traveling about 260 miles over Northwestern China, south of the Mongolian border, the unpiloted Russian Progress 75 cargo ship docked at 1:12 a.m. EDT to the Zvezda Service Module on the Russian segment of the complex. Carrying almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the International Space Station crew, The Progress 75 spacecraft launched Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:51 p.m. EDT (6:51 a.m. Saturday, April 25, Baikonur time). The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned, prior to the rendezvous. Progress 75 will remain docked at the station for more than seven months before departing in December for its de